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How Emotions Develop and How they Organise Development
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Concepts from functional theories of emotions are integrated with principles of skill development to produce a theory of emotional development. The theory provides tools for predicting both the sequences of emotional development and the ways emotions shape development. Emotions are characterised in terms of three component models: (a) the process of emotion generation from event appraisal, (b) a hierarchy of emotion categories organised around a handful of basic-emotion families, and (c) a characterisation of emotions in terms of prototypic event scripts. The basic emotions and the positive vs. negative hedonic components of emotions function as constraints or organisers that shape behaviour whenever an emotion is activated. Through these patterning effects, emotions shape both short-term behavioural organisation and long-term development. The skill-development component of the theory explains how, as children grow, they construct and control increasingly complex skills—which affect many aspects of emotion, from appraisal to emotional self-control. These skills can be characterised in terms of a series of developmental tiers and levels; they are not fixed traits of the child but instead are affected by assessment conditions and emotional action tendencies. The developmental process gradually moves from basic, species-specific emotions to culture-specific, subordinate-category emotions and the complexities of adult emotional experiences. The theory provides a set of conceptual and methodological tools to predict and assess emotional development. It also indicates how emotional development fits with other aspects of systematic change in the organisation of behaviour.
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- Authors
- Fischer, K. W., Shaver, P. R., & Carnochan, P.
- Venue
- Cognition & Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1990-04
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 81-127
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- OpenAlex
- W2111148270
- Cited by
- 317
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 10.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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